Handbook on the economics of ecosystem services and biodiversity
By: edited by Paulo A.L.D. Nunes, Scientific Coordinator, Policy and Technical Experts Committee, WAVES,Pushpam Kumar, Cheif, Ecosystem Services Economics Unit, United NAtions environment Programme (UNEP), Kenya, Tom Dedeurwaerdere, Director, BIOGOV Unit, Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium
Series: Elgar original reference; Elgar original reference
Publisher: Edward Elgar; Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 588
ISBN-13: 9781781951507
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Ecosystem services; Ecosystem management; Biodiversity; Economic aspects; Biodiversity conservation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Paulo A.L.D. Nunes, Pushpam Kumar and Tom Dedeurwaerdere; title: Part I: Setting the scene : the need for ecosystem service valuation; title: Comprehensive wealth accounting : measuring sustainable development / Glenn-Marie Lange and Esther Naikal; title: The protective value of estuarine and coastal ecosystems / Edward B. Barbier; title: Cruising for a bruising : challenges in sustainable capture of ecosystem service values from cruise ship tourism in Belize / Andrew Seidl, Lawrence Pratt, Martha Honey, William H. Durham, Geraldine Slean and Amos Bien; title: Climate change effects on the economics and management of marine fisheries / U. Rashid Sumaila, William W L. Cheung and Vicky W.Y. Lam; title: The economic impacts of ocean acidification / Luke M. Brander, Daiju Narita, Katrin Rehdanz and Richard S.J. Tal; title: Estimating the welfare loss of climate change impact on corals / Pushpam Kumar and Hongyan Chen; title: Part II: Emerging economic valuation methods, including the use of deliberative, macro and spatially explicit economic valuation; title: The behavioral argument for an expanded valuation framework for biodiversity and ecosystem services / John M. Gowdy and Sarah Parks; title: Valuing ecosystem services in macroeconomic settings / Rodney B.W. Smith and Masahiko Gemma; title: Exploring the use of a macro-micro-based approach to value biodiversity productivity impacts on the agricultural sector / Ruslana Rachel Palatnik and Paulo A.L.D. Nunes; title: Quantifying and valuing ecosystem services : an application of ARIES to the San Pedro River Basin, USA / Kenneth J. Bagstad, Darius Semmens, Ferdinando Villa and Gary W. Johnson; title: Optimal selection of clustered conservation lands using integer programming : the case of Fort Stewart in Georgia, USA / Sahan T.M. Dissanayake, Hayri Önal, James D. Westervelt and Harold E. Balbach; title: QUICKScan : a pragmatic approach for decision support in ecosystem services assessment and management / Manuel Winograd, Marta Pérez-Soba and Peter Venveij; title: Part III: Ecosystem services and conservation policy; title: Ecosystem service valuation and the allocation of land / R. David Simpson; title: Biodiversity prospecting over time and under uncertainty : a theory of sorts / Amitrajeet A. Batabyal and Peter Nijkamp; title: Game theory and marine protected areas : the effects of conservation autarky in a multiple-use environment / Maarten J. Punt, Hans-Peter Weikard and Ekko C. van Ierland; title: The valuation of ecosystem services and their role in decision-making : constraints and ways forward / Anil Markandya and Marta Pascual; title: Optimal species preservation policy in a symbiotic relationship between species / Shiri Zemah-Shamir, Benyamin Shitovitz and Mordechai Shechter; title: Biodiversity, poverty and development / Charles Palmer and Salvatore Di Falco; title: Biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services provision : a tale of confused objectives, multiple market failures and policy challenges / Jessica Coria, Elizabeth Robinson, Henrik G. Smith and Thomas Sterner; title: Part IV: Shedding light on non-market values of ecosystem services; title: A choice experiment to value the recreational benefits of coral reefs : a case study of Ras Mohammed National Park, Egypt / Rady T. Tawfik and R. Kerry Turner; title: Using ecological information in choice experiments to value ecosystem services restoration programmes in East Asia / Yohei Mitani and Ståle Navrud; title: A one-and-one-half bound contingent valuation survey to estimate the benefits of restoring a degraded coastal wetland ecosystem : the case study of Capo Feto, Italy / Giovanni Signorello, Joseph C. Cooper, Giuseppe Cucuzza and Maria De Salvo; title: A micro-econometric approach to deriving use and non-use values of in situ groundwater : the Vosvozis case study, Greece / Phoebe Koundouri, Vassilis Babalos, Mavra Stithou and Ioannis Anastasiou; title: The economic feasibility of the creation of the Jardines de la Reina National Park / Tamara Figueredo Martin, Fabián Pina-Amargós and Jorge Angulo-Valdés; title: Valuation of ecosystem services provided by man-made wetlands / Nico B.P. Polman. Arianne T. de Blaeij, C. Martijn van der Heide, Vincent Linderhof and Stijn Reinhard; title: The contribution of non-use values to inform the management of groundwater systems : the Rokua esker, Northern Finland / Phoebe Koundouri, Mavra Stithou, Eva Kougea, Pertti Ala-aho, Riku Eskelinen, Timo Karjalainen, Björn Klöve, Manuel Pulido- Velazquez, Kalle Reinikainen and Pekka M. Rossi; title: Part V: The role of governance and science-policy-business interface in bringing visible ecosystem values; title: Governance is critical to managing coastal and marine resources : effects of marine management areas / Giselle Samonte, Daniel Suman, Juan Maté, Diego Quiroga, Carlos Mena, Adele Catzim-Sanchez, Patrick Fong and Xuanwen Wang; title: Strengthening the science-policy interface : lessons from the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services / Anantha Kumar Duraiappah; title: Governance of the transition to a green economy : responding to the values of nature / Patrick ten Brink, Leonardo Mazza, Tomas Badura, Marianne Kettunen and Sirini Withana; title: New business decision-making aids in an era of complexity, scrutiny, and uncertainty : tools for identifying, assessing, and valuing ecosystem services / Sissel Waage.